This fall, the Digital Scholarship Group will host its first Digital Scholarship Incubator, a seven-week series that aims to introduce major tools, methodologies, and questions in digital scholarship. An Incubator is an opportunity to develop a digital research or pedagogy project within a cohort of digital scholarship practitioners. Participants were selected by application and were assessed on their interest in digital scholarship and proposed projects. We were inspired to create the program after speaking with faculty and students across campus who wanted to learn more about digital scholarship but didn’t know where to start. A cohort approach allows participants to learn together—and from each other—in a welcoming environment.
Each week, the sessions will focus on a different topic. The curriculum includes text analysis, digital archives and critical editions, data cleanup, and pattern finding. By the conclusion of the sessions, participants will develop a digital scholarship or pedagogy project plan. In addition to an overview of digital tools and methodologies, participants will learn how to:
- Evaluate how these methods facilitate answering research questions
- Assess digital scholarship project needs and requirements (including technical expertise, software applications, and programming languages) that correspond to their research questions or scholarly ideas
- Identify potential partners and form a team of people with diverse expertise
This fall’s cohort includes faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from CSOM, English, History, Theology, Philosophy, Romance Languages and Literature, and other departments. We look forward to seeing projects develop and new ideas emerge!
If you weren’t able to apply for the Incubator, no need to worry—the Digital Scholarship Group will be hosting workshops as part of its Coffee & Code series. Past Coffee & Code events have included workshops on building digital exhibits, visualizing data with online map-making tools, performing textual analysis on large bodies of work, and other current topics in digital scholarship. The fall will also see the return of our popular Open House, a chance to learn about digital scholarship activity across the university and meet others interested in these tools and methodologies. The Coffee & Code schedule is forthcoming, but you can find more information about all our offerings on the Digital Scholarship Group’s events page.
If you have a request for a workshop or want to learn how you can incorporate digital scholarship tools and methodologies into your work, drop us a line!